Should She Have Left Him? — page 286: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

A SIMPLE SOLUTION. 273 the deck of an ocean steamer, about a year after the close of its events, prompted from time to time by his wife. From old habit, I addressed her as Mrs. Trevor-Allen. She corrected me, laughingly saying that though she had increased her state she had diminished her name. They were going abroad for a prolonged stay, and proposed to spend some time with the Duchess of Somersfield. Did I recol- lect the duchess? Hilda Courtenay, you know— ‘she who was divorced from young Waldemar? Oh-h, yes! Indeed! <A duchess, hey! GOMMGIOO cS (GO)